Hunter x Hunter: From Obtaining the World to Beyond Heaven

Qiduo's forehead slammed hard into Dia's head!

Splat!

After a loud crash, Dia was sprawled out on the floor, face down, like a fly that had been flattened by a fly swatter.

Dia Diego, never to rise again!

Chapter Fifteen: Ripples and Thoughts × Door-to-Door Service

The following day at noon, in the training grounds underground of the Hunter Association.

Qiduo held a piece of cake and ate it ladylike, bite by bite.

"Um……"

"So, in short, the combination of Ripple and Nen actually greatly enhances the offensive and defensive capabilities of Nen?"

"Yes, and I feel that when I move the Ripple within my body, my potential Nen seems to be constantly increasing, and after contacting Nen, the intensity of the Ripple is also amplified out of thin air!"

"Furthermore, if you take the released Nen as an object and wrap the Ripple around it, it seems to have different properties."

Diya raised her right hand, gathered her Nen energy at her fingertips, and then directed the ripples to converge at her fingertips.

A dazzling golden light flashed!

Diya's ripples naturally merged with the Nen energy within her body, turning the white Nen energy gold, with a golden current swirling around it.

Qiduo suddenly remembered something and said:

"Have you tried using this state of air to test the water technique?"

This reminded Dia that she had never tried it before, and perhaps the type of thought would change under such circumstances.

So he prepared another cup of water, placed a leaf on it, and activated [Training] on the cup again, but this time he carefully wrapped [Yamabuki-iro Ripple Dash] around his Nen.

Just like before, the water turned golden, but this time the volume had increased. Seeing this, Qiduo suddenly stepped forward, dipped her finger in, tasted it, and her eyes lit up. She exclaimed:

"Sure enough, the water tastes sweet now. Your Nen now combines the characteristics of three types: [Transmutation], [Emission], and [Enhancement]."

"In other words, it's a [Specialty] type!"

At this moment, the combination of Ripple and Nen has already shown the properties of [Enhancement] and [Transformation], in addition to his native [Emission] type.

At this moment, Dia's Nen has encompassed all three of the most suitable combat types. In other words, his future combat ability will probably soon surpass that of Kido, who is also a [Specialty] type but leans more towards [Conjuration] type!

"Dia, when you build your Nen ability in the future, you should develop it around Ripple. It's such a good characteristic, it would be a waste to only develop Emission-type abilities."

"Okay! But there's something else I'd like to test."

As he spoke, Dia placed his hands back on either side of the water glass, and with a strange breath, a crimson light wrapped around his aura.

Qi Duo was taken aback, and quickly stepped forward to taste the water in the cup again—

"Ouch, it's so spicy!"

Qiduo never expected that the water would turn into a spicy flavor that she was least suited to, and she let out a scream.

Upon hearing this, Dia also stepped forward out of curiosity and took a bite.

Ouch—not spicy!

He secretly gasped for breath, realizing the change in smell was far more pronounced than he'd expected, but it also confirmed his earlier suspicions:

'Different ripples will exhibit different properties, especially the [Mountain Breeze Color] and [Crimson Red] energies. In comparison, [Cyan Green] and [Metallic Color] should also possess different properties!'

Let's tentatively call this combination of ripples and thought "Ripple Thought."

Afterwards, Qiduo hurriedly explained a few words about the cultivation method of the character "Mountain" to him, and then ran off to find milk to drink.

Dia secretly rejoiced that he had just tried the combination of Ripple and Nen, as his familiarity with Ripple was actually far greater than his current Nen.

If these two abilities were incompatible, he might have chosen to develop the Nen, which has greater potential, and reluctantly given up Ripple.

But now it seems that cultivating Ripple not only doesn't hinder him, but even enhances his Nen, so his next choice is simple.

Multitasking, simultaneously cultivating Ripple and Nen!

In fact, these are compatible. Ripple training is done through breathing techniques, while Nen training is done through continuous bursts of "training," which are not contradictory.

After setting his goal, Dia continued his training without stopping, focusing on familiarizing himself with the techniques of "training" and "entanglement".

Afterwards, Qi Duo rushed back to the medical university. She still had many things to do, such as recording the court proceedings from the last secret court hearing.

Although Dia was the scribe at that time, after so much time had passed, Qiduo did not believe that he could rewrite it word for word.

To avoid putting Diya in a difficult position, Keita, who had a photographic memory since childhood, silently took on the task without mentioning it to Diya.

With every ability comes a responsibility. Qi Duo, who has been hailed as a genius since childhood, has become accustomed to bearing more responsibility, even if some things are not her responsibility, and even if she does them silently, no one will appreciate it.

From this perspective, Dia and Qiduo, who took on all responsibilities as soon as they arrived in this world and considered eliminating wanted criminals as their own duty, actually have something in common.

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"Yes, yes, I understand."

"So the only person we need to protect is the twelfth prince; the people sent by the fourth prince are not within the scope of protection."

"...They are all 'ordinary people' with clear identities, but can't we rule out the possibility that 'dangerous individuals' might be trying to steal the auction items..."

"Okay, I'll arrange the bodyguard team. Let's calculate the fee as a Class C case."

Two-star criminal hunter Mitchellston put down the phone and fell into deep thought.

Just now, he received a commission, and the client's identity was very sensitive—the twelfth prince of the Kakin Empire!

The person who met with him claimed that the twelfth prince wanted to go to Yorknew City to attend this year's auction.

Meanwhile, the fourth prince of the Kingdom of Kakin proposed to send someone to accompany the twelfth prince to participate in a guessing game for a certain item.

The client outsourced part of the security task to the civilian security company in Mizziston, while the other part was undertaken by the Royal Guard.

During this period, the royal guard assigned to the twelfth prince will be responsible for a series of matters, including route planning, hotel reservations, time arrangements, and transportation.

The bodyguard team dispatched by Mitchellston was only responsible for peripheral affairs and, together with the guards, for the personal safety of the twelfth prince.

The people sent by the fourth prince were explicitly told that they did not need guards; they were merely companions.

In the phone call just now, Mitchellston subtly inquired whether any individuals with special abilities were involved in the operation. The answer he received was that they were all ordinary people, but the possibility of attacks by individuals with special abilities could not be ruled out.

The claim of looting the auction items is just a smokescreen; the actual attack was most likely against a member of the royal family.

'It seems this twelfth prince is not highly regarded...'

Mizziston calmly analyzed the situation and realized that, given the possibility of an attack by ability users, the royal family had not dispatched ability users to the twelfth prince's guard team, but had instead subtly entrusted him with the task of guarding against ability users.

This shows that protecting the twelfth prince was not a top priority for the royal guards, otherwise they wouldn't have only sent ordinary people to protect him.

Given the sensitive nature of the prince's identity, Mizziston classified the commission as Rank C, meaning that there would definitely be a Nen user involved, but the level of danger would not be high.

"If we include the bidding team sent by the Fourth Prince, then we'd need to send multiple Nen users, which would bring the total to Rank B."

But the other party refused, either because the fourth prince had great confidence in the strength of the team he sent, or because he didn't care about their lives at all.

However, the fact that no Nen user was with them eliminates the former possibility.

'It seems the fourth prince of the Kakin Empire isn't exactly a benevolent person.'

That being said, the affairs of the Cakin royal family have nothing to do with Mitchellston; what he needs to do now is select a suitable candidate for his commission.

"A Class C security assignment, and it needs to be divided among teams, means bounty hunters are definitely out of the question; the company is currently short of ability users."

'Should we temporarily recruit new hunters...?'

Mitchellston thought for a moment, then picked up his phone from the table. He was going to call Chairman Netero to inquire about the results of this year's Hunter Exam.

Based on the timeline, if a new hunter passes the test, they should have already completed the final step of the Hunter Exam—mastering martial arts, which means learning Nen abilities.

As Mitchell was thinking this, he heard a "beep"—the call had connected…

Chapter Sixteen: Advice × Obtaining a Hunter's License (Not Really)

It's still the Hunter Association's underground training ground.

Diya, in a squatting horse stance, quietly activated [Absolute] with her eyes closed.

Normally, he would be multitasking with Ripple training at this time, because he discovered that his Nen capacity increased much faster than usual when training Ripple!

But at this moment he was having another headache—his savings were about to run out.

That's right, he eats, drinks, sleeps, and trains at the Hunter Association, and none of that is free.

Although Qiduo was willing to help him pay—after all, the amount was a drop in the ocean for her—he refused because he felt he had already taken too much advantage of him.

Although he promised Qiduo that he would help her complete that mysterious request, he hasn't done anything yet.

He's getting paid for his teachings without any payment, stealing his cake, and even expecting him to pay his rent. If you can accept that, it's no different from being a kept man.

Kido tried to persuade him to accept it, but for some reason, after Chairman Netero gave a strange laugh, she stopped mentioning it.

So he discussed it with Mr. Bean Noodles, wanting to prepay three days' rent, but who would have thought...

'Three days, three days' rent cost me most of my savings...'

'The Hunter Association is so corrupt; no wonder they claim that 60 out of the world's top 100 richest people are members of the Hunter Association.'

Dia felt numb, but since she had already put on an act, there was no reason to reconcile now. This forced Dia to consider a practical issue—making money.

Damn it, I might as well use my invincible [World] to steal the guild leader's secret stash; that old man won't need it anymore anyway.

With some truly hellish thoughts in mind, Dia almost reached out and laid her hands on the 116-year-old lonely old man.

"Mr. Dia, thank goodness, you're here!"

A voice interrupted Dia from his [absolute] state. He opened his eyes and saw Doumian, covered in sweat, saying to him:

"The president said he would like to invite you to lunch today and is wondering if you are free."

Dia found it a bit strange. Chairman Netero had been visiting him frequently these past few days, seemingly with nothing on his mind, but this was the first time he had been invited to lunch.

Is something wrong? Are you worried about a rent increase?